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Africa must enter the nuclear debate
The Third World is now painfully aware of its dire need for nuclear energy -- Also, a sentiment has arisen that the 1968 Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is discriminatory against the Third World.
Africa should purge its past
The first critical step towards genuine reparations is fundamental rehabilitation of the Africans' 'attitude of mind'. Slavery, colonialism and neo-colonialism have left deep scars in our psyche: a sense of inferiority complex, self-contempt and worshiping things Western. We are part of what Caribbean writer, Frantz Fanon, describes in his book Black Skin, White Masks.
African Diaspora and the US-African policy
During his first presidential campaign, George W Bush brushed Africa aside as incidental to the US global interests. Three years later, the same Bush made an official five-nation visit to Africa. Critics wondered if it was tourism or serious business.
African Diaspora's potential untapped
Despite these positive developments, ties with the Diaspora are still embryonic. It remains a fact that the full import of the African Diaspora for Africa remains grossly unexplored; it is a mine that calls for extraction for the benefit of both parties.
Apartheid had a role in making of history
African-American Pan-Africanist, Molefe Ashante, often laments that Europe has robbed Africa of its history. The charge is an inverted vindication of the old adage that, as long as the lion remains the writer of history, he will always emerge the victor.
Campaign For Reparations - Can Africa Make Claims To The West?
Calls for compensating Africa by former colonisers has gained momentum over the years. Is this a subtle invitation to reorient our minds and revisit the question: "Between Africa and the West, who really owes whom?" South Africa was caught in an animated debate on the same issue of a debt. Should the Black victims of apartheid seek legal restitution from those corporations that benefited from their exploitation in the past?
Continent's courtship with superpowers
China's success in becoming the preferred trade partner of several African states was a Western concern initially when it referred to a handful of states such as Sudan and Zimbabwe. It became downright alarming when the list started to include resource-rich countries such as the DRC, Angola and South Africa.
Diaspora Africans need decolonisation of mind
A significant aspect of the 'enslavement process' was to mis-educate the Diasporans about Africans, and Continental Africans about those in the Diaspora. This stubborn barrier still exists within the Global African community and needs to be reversed by appropriate education.
Global Africa and the concept of 'near-abroad'
Curtailment of Anglo-American influence in Zimbabwe is a higher SA foreign policy priority than human rights and democracy. It is not that democracy and human rights are irrelevant; it is that, in context of Western intrusions, those objectives are as dry as dust.
Global Africa has to revisit Nuclear debate
Should Global Africa sit back and be marginalised on the on-going nuclear debate? In considering the matter, it is worth remembering that the same question has arisen in the past.
Ian Smith's defiance was a symbol of bigger reality
Smith's illusion of 'no-black-rule in a thousand years' was sheer madness. In one decade alone since Ghana's independence in 1957, virtually all Black Africa had attained independence. The 'winds of change' had indeed swept across the continent, but the white supremacists of Southern Africa remained hypnotised by a notion of a buffer African Mason-Dixon Line along Angola, Mozambique and Southern Rhodesia.
Land issue in South Africa after apartheid
A panel of experts has recommended that freedom of foreigners to purchase land in SA be curtailed. It will be mandatory to obtain ministerial approval to buy land earmarked for land restitution. Foreigners will not be allowed to buy land in areas of national interest.
Mugabe's war with UK is decades-old
The Anglo-American decision to punish the country indiscriminately convinced Mugabe that the British agenda was to oust him and install the MDC to reverse his policies, especially on land. To Mugabe, the current crisis is a struggle against re-colonisation; losing it is not an option. Many African leaders, perhaps including Thabo Mbeki, are sympathetic to the view that the Zimbabwe elections are a war within a bigger war.
Nyerere was Africa's true man of the people
Afro-pessimists of the world once glorified Tanzania's Julius Kambarage Nyerere by musing that he should not have been born African. More sincere admirers saluted him simply as 'one of the planet's best and brightest'. When he died in 1999, practically the entire world, including the General Assembly of the UN, grieved a terrible loss. An American Afro-optimist simply lamented tearfully: I would have followed him anywhere!
Remembering great Blacks in the Diaspora
August was a landmark month in Historic African Diaspora in more ways than one. It was the month that saw James Seale sentenced to three life terms for the murder of two Black youth 34 years earlier. The week after, the world of tennis honoured Althea Gibson for her contribution to the game, 50 years after that courageous Black woman won Wimbledon, the most prestigious event in that sport.
State of affirmative action in South Africa
Do the wheels of history always turn towards greater justice? Apparently so considering that whenever Black and White people have interacted, some form of racism has emerged. Equally persistently, the societies in question have often evolved some programmes to remedy the inequities derived from the self-inflicted racism.
The African Diaspora: A definition revisited
Accepted contemporary definitions of the African Diaspora include all Africans living outside the continent. These definitions invariably embrace two categories of the African Diaspora. First, the Diaspora Enslavement comprises of the African descendents who were historically taken away from Africa by force.
Women set for political supremacy in 21st Century
Going by current indications, the 21st Century will witness women rise to powerful positions around the world. So far, Asia has done comparatively well, and signs are that women will continue to be effective power brokers in that continent.

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